In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.
CLEMENT ATTLEEWinston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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The press lives on disaster.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
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I am pleased to see from the laughter on the Ministerial benches that there is no implication on their part to take Sir Oswald Mosley too seriously. It can easily be seen to-day that this idea of a dictator is gradually falling down.
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